Author: Estensen, Miriam
Title: Discovery: the Quest for the Great South Land
Description: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. St Martins Pr, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0312217560. Very Good in Very Good jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.286 with index, bibliography and notes. This story begins among Greek philosophers on the shores of the Mediterranean and ends two millennia later in the vast Southern Ocean. The author tells an absorbing tale of mapmakers, lonely caravels, Spanish hidalgos and Dutch merchants, remote coasts and castaways, buccaneers and dreamers. This book tells how the speculations and visionaries became Terra Incognita and then Australia. clean tight copy, slight edgewear. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: AUSTRALIA DISCOVERY EXPLORATION HISTORY OCEANIA 0312217560